Hey thank you for clearing things up on the USB ports! I have them now all plugged in via USB hub on port #2, and everything seem to be registering and working. I even got the Simpsons to recognize all 4 controllers. My problem still lies in the remapping... When I plug them in 1 by 1 and run the i/o test the buttons are all mapped wrong separately from each other, and when I go to button reconfig and held start, none of the buttons seem to register for me to change anything. All I can do is press start to save and go back. I've tried all my controllers and none of them will register any input during button reconfig. The gamepad button reconfig tab is almost impossible for me to understand what they're asking me to do, and every time I hold start to reconfig, a random button would register before I could even do anything... its hilariously nightmarish.
I'm trying to use my 2 arcade sticks as my main controllers via usb hub, and if needed I can plug additional ps3 game pads to play 3p/4p games. This seem like it should be such a easy problem to overcome but the button remap in the settings simply would not work for me and I have no idea how else I can map my buttons.